Particularly large groups of sunspots on the Sun on September 4, 2017. The group at bottom is AR 2673, the group at top is 2674. The small spot at lef

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Particularly large groups of sunspots on the Sun on September 4, 2017. The group at bottom is AR 2673, the group at top is 2674. The small spot at left on the emerging limb is AR 2677, while the groups disappearing at right are AR 2675 (top) and AR 2776. I shot this through the 130mm Astro-Physics refractor with a 2x Barlow lens for an effective focal length of 1500mm and with the Canon 60Da camera for an image that just filled the frame.

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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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